Got a weird thing happening with couatl.exe in that when I am at KLAS or KPHX the buildings will load up and P3D V 2.4 will pause for a few seconds and the building will disappear, and not CTD (no crash to desktop) P3D keeps running fine - it's just that couatl.exe will unload itself.

 

Note: KDFW is working fine! (KDFW also works with the public beta couatl.exe)

 

Tried re-installing KLAS & KPHX - no worky

Tried downloading the stand alone add-on manager - no joy there either!

Tried using the Public Test beta Stand alone Mananger V 3.0.03 and no luck

 

Also:

 

No Nvidia streaming stuff running

AntiVirus disabled for testing

Disabled FTX Vector

 

Here is what was reported in the event viewer

 

Non Beta Version of couatl.exe:

Faulting application name: couatl.exe, version: 2.0.0.2378, time stamp: 0x54bec650
Faulting module name: couatl.exe, version: 2.0.0.2378, time stamp: 0x54bec650
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000028f6
Faulting process id: 0x240
Faulting application start time: 0x01d06fd201e4bf4e
Faulting application path: G:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2\fsdreamteam\couatl\couatl.exe
Faulting module path: G:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2\fsdreamteam\couatl\couatl.exe
Report Id: 60846f29-dbc5-11e4-b2ae-180373420dbc

 

 

 

Public Test Beta add-on mgr with updated couatl.exe:

 

Faulting application name: couatl.exe, version: 3.0.0.3028, time stamp: 0x551be9bb
Faulting module name: couatl.exe, version: 3.0.0.3028, time stamp: 0x551be9bb
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00019413
Faulting process id: 0x1a64
Faulting application start time: 0x01d06fdc12484010
Faulting application path: G:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2\fsdreamteam\couatl\couatl.exe
Faulting module path: G:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2\fsdreamteam\couatl\couatl.exe
Report Id: 6c74f4be-dbcf-11e4-b70d-180373420dbc

 

 

 

 

I guess the fsdt payware airports Las Vegas and Phoenix or just broken for 2.4+ until they can fix up the issue with couatl crashing... Maybe it is a mismatch with the compiled code.. I notice they are installing visual studio 2013 resdist code when installing... Oh well, at least kdfw works ok!

A few more things that I would also mention:

 

Problem with couatl.exe crashing with FSDT KLAS &  Flight Beam KPHX occurred after installing P3D 2.4 (was working great under P3D 2.2)

 

FSDT & Flight Beam airports are all working good under my FSX Gold installation.

 

This Problem seems to only manifest itself with KLAS and KPHX in P3D V2.4 (KDFW works great under V 2.4)

 

Has anyone got FSDT's KLAS or Flight Beam's KPHX working under P3D V 2.4 using couatl version 2.0.0.2378 or the couatl Beta version 3.0.0.3028 ???

I have no problem with any FSDT/Flightbeam location with P3Dv2.5 so maybe v2.4 is not compatible with the exiting couatl.exe that is kept current with current LM product.

That's what I was thinking.. (could be some files are compiled specifically for 2.5) 

 

Just upgraded from 2.2 a few days ago and decided to go with 2.4 since I had it stashed away on my secondary drive for a while and my internet connection went out about half way thru the 2.5 download of 10 gb - another reason is that I heard other folks having issues with popcorn clouds, reflections, etc and wanted to wait until those are fixed up with 2.5.

 

Anyways, 2.4 seems more smooth that 2.2 did and I don't need to use the affinity mask tweak anymore!

 

I guess I will eventually get around to updating to 2.5.. In the mean time , I just wanna fly :-)

KLAS works now (I have not tried KPHX yet)

 

Issue:

 

Active Sky Next dll may be conflicting couatl.exe when it is loaded in the dll.xml and Active Sky Next is not running. When I loaded ASN before a flight I get the KLAS airport and couatl.exe does not konk out.. I will do some more testing but I think I got a work-around now (make sure ASN is running before starting P3D, if the ASN dll is being loaded in the dll.xml)

 

Some more info:

 

P3D V2.4

Active Sky Next for P3D SP1B

couatl.exe version used for this test: 2.0.0.2378

Update again more testing:

So I disabled the Active Sky Next DLL in the dll.xml for P3D V 2.4 and KLAS disappeared as before AND couatl.exe konked out... The dll above the ASN dll in the dll.xml file was the TacPack dll, I re-enable the Active Sky Next dll and disabled the Tacpack dll - launched a flight and the KLAS works without running the ASN weather program.. So it seems there may also be a conflict with the TacPack dll?

Note: I will need to test and see if KLAS works while running the ASN weather program with the tacpack dll disabled.

More info testing KLAS with P3D 2.4:

* With the TacPack dll in the dll.xml file disabled KLAS works all the time (couatl.exe does not crash) either running Active Sky Next or not running Active Sky Next.

* With TacPack dll enabled in the dll.xml, running Active Sky Next seems to mitigate the conflict between the TacPack DLL and couatl.exe AND KLAS works without coutl.exe crashing.